No gig traffic. Suggestions?

[hannahhowzdy]

Hey, Fiverr!

I feel like I used to get a ton of orders. I’ve been on Fiverr for a few years - I have a 5 star rating and great buyer reviews. I used to get a few orders a week, however, now, I’m lucky if I get one order a month. I still come online once a day, I’ve made use of the new “Available Now” feature, and I routinely update my profile. Not sure what is wrong or why it seems my orders have essentially stopped.

Fiverr used to be a great source of extra income, but now I’m making nothing. I’m seriously thinking of deactivating but would love not to.

Does anyone have ANY ideas or tips on how to regain gig traffic?

[karim121]

Please let us know what is the key method or if there is a site that will be used to sell more. Thank you

[wp_kid]

Hey, Fiverr!

I feel like I used to get a ton of orders. I’ve been on Fiverr for a few years - I have a 5 star rating and great buyer reviews. I used to get a few orders a week, however, now, I’m lucky if I get one order a month. I still come online once a day, I’ve made use of the new “Available Now” feature, and I routinely update my profile. Not sure what is wrong or why it seems my orders have essentially stopped.

Fiverr used to be a great source of extra income, but now I’m making nothing. I’m seriously thinking of deactivating but would love not to.

Does anyone have ANY ideas or tips on how to regain gig traffic?

I still come online once a day,

I think this is the reason for your sell drop.

Buyers usually like to buy from online sellers, try to stay online for the maximum time as you can. '

Amazing gig btw, GoodLuck 🌻

[hannahhowzdy]

I still come online once a day,

I think this is the reason for your sell drop.

Buyers usually like to buy from online sellers, try to stay online for the maximum time as you can. '

Amazing gig btw, GoodLuck 🌻

Thanks so much for the tip, wp_kid! I’ll try keeping Fiverr active and open for longer stretches of time. 😊

[selfors]

Your gig looks great, your profile shot, everything. It all looks great. Your voice sounds great. Your problem is none of those things.

I have theory, which I espoused a couple of times on here before: As Fiverr approaches its eventual IPO/buyout, revenues are becoming very important. Revenue divided by impressions is the ratio that makes Fiverr favor one gig over another (as logically it should).

Your gig is waaaaay cheap, but your gig options are expensive. This creates adverse selection (upsells are always easier to close if they are small in comparison to the base price), so that your average transaction price is quite low. (I know that I don’t really know this. But I’m guessing your average ticket is significantly lower than mine, and my gigs rank extremely well. And so I sell a lot of stuff.)

If I were you, I would:

Raise your base price to $25, but keep the incremental cost of additional words to $5.

Kill most of your gig extras, like commercial rights. What’s it to you how they use your clip?

Create a new somewhat-unique voiceover gig every week for the next few weeks. They will get rotated into the top of the search for a few days. (Don’t you love how Fiverr does that?)

Re-record your gig video to start it with a USP (“I have been told I have the most beautiful voice on Fiverr”), go to a call-to-action “Order now. I promise you won’t regret it. :)”, and only THEN start your portfolio clips.

I am pretty sure my little plan will work. Best of success to you. 🙂

[vickiespencer]

I stay on Fiverr all my waking hours via the Fiverr phone app. 😀

[excelsolutionn]

Your gig looks great, your profile shot, everything. It all looks great. Your voice sounds great. Your problem is none of those things.

I have theory, which I espoused a couple of times on here before: As Fiverr approaches its eventual IPO/buyout, revenues are becoming very important. Revenue divided by impressions is the ratio that makes Fiverr favor one gig over another (as logically it should).

Your gig is waaaaay cheap, but your gig options are expensive. This creates adverse selection (upsells are always easier to close if they are small in comparison to the base price), so that your average transaction price is quite low. (I know that I don’t really know this. But I’m guessing your average ticket is significantly lower than mine, and my gigs rank extremely well. And so I sell a lot of stuff.)

If I were you, I would:

Raise your base price to $25, but keep the incremental cost of additional words to $5.

Kill most of your gig extras, like commercial rights. What’s it to you how they use your clip?

Create a new somewhat-unique voiceover gig every week for the next few weeks. They will get rotated into the top of the search for a few days. (Don’t you love how Fiverr does that?)

Re-record your gig video to start it with a USP (“I have been told I have the most beautiful voice on Fiverr”), go to a call-to-action “Order now. I promise you won’t regret it. :)”, and only THEN start your portfolio clips.

I am pretty sure my little plan will work. Best of success to you. 🙂

Good Suggesition

Thanks

[hannahhowzdy]

Your gig looks great, your profile shot, everything. It all looks great. Your voice sounds great. Your problem is none of those things.

I have theory, which I espoused a couple of times on here before: As Fiverr approaches its eventual IPO/buyout, revenues are becoming very important. Revenue divided by impressions is the ratio that makes Fiverr favor one gig over another (as logically it should).

Your gig is waaaaay cheap, but your gig options are expensive. This creates adverse selection (upsells are always easier to close if they are small in comparison to the base price), so that your average transaction price is quite low. (I know that I don’t really know this. But I’m guessing your average ticket is significantly lower than mine, and my gigs rank extremely well. And so I sell a lot of stuff.)

If I were you, I would:

Raise your base price to $25, but keep the incremental cost of additional words to $5.

Kill most of your gig extras, like commercial rights. What’s it to you how they use your clip?

Create a new somewhat-unique voiceover gig every week for the next few weeks. They will get rotated into the top of the search for a few days. (Don’t you love how Fiverr does that?)

Re-record your gig video to start it with a USP (“I have been told I have the most beautiful voice on Fiverr”), go to a call-to-action “Order now. I promise you won’t regret it. :)”, and only THEN start your portfolio clips.

I am pretty sure my little plan will work. Best of success to you. 🙂

Selfors!!! Thank you SO incredibly much for your suggestions! Truly, you are so kind. I will take all of them and make some intense edits this week based on your ideas!!

My only concern is the $25 Commercial License. The only reason why this is here on Fiverr is because it’s meant to mimic real life voiceover residuals - when you do a voiceover for copy that is used for a TV show or a commercial, you are sent a cheque every single time your voice airs. So, if your voice is used to sell millions of dollars of Samsung televisions, you get a small cut of that pay. It ensures you continue to profit as long as the company does. In the real world, even if you do a commercial that flops, you make $100 minimum per 20 minutes of studio work; with small residual cheques every month after.

That being said, on Fiverr, I’m lucky if any commercial pays me $10. The Commercial License is sort of the only way I make money; it turns an $8 take into a $28 one. I worry that if I take the base price up, the buyers who wouldn’t need a Commercial License (like a Voicemail or Powerpoint creator) will be deterred by the high price, and conversely, that I’ll lose money on those projects that would normally require a license.

I’ve been wanting to raise my base price for awhile, but I worry.

What do you think?

[uxreview]

I’d say forget about the commercial license.
If someone orders your gig for $5 and uses it on a local radio or TV, then most likely you won’t know about it. Even if you did, who’s gonna go after that small business?
I might be wrong though. If you feel that all your $5 buyer didn’t use it for commercial purpose then keep it.

Instead, raise your base price to 10 or 15 and say it covers the commercial license. If a buyer sees that commercial is just 5 or 10 more then they are more likely to order it. I think right now you’re losing some buyers because $25 is too expensive extra for a $5 gig and there’s no way for you to monitor license usage anyway.

[hannahhowzdy]

I’d say forget about the commercial license.

If someone orders your gig for $5 and uses it on a local radio or TV, then most likely you won’t know about it. Even if you did, who’s gonna go after that small business?

I might be wrong though. If you feel that all your $5 buyer didn’t use it for commercial purpose then keep it.

Instead, raise your base price to 10 or 15 and say it covers the commercial license. If a buyer sees that commercial is just 5 or 10 more then they are more likely to order it. I think right now you’re losing some buyers because $25 is too expensive extra for a $5 gig and there’s no way for you to monitor license usage anyway.

A great point. Thank you, uxreview!

[selfors]

Selfors!!! Thank you SO incredibly much for your suggestions! Truly, you are so kind. I will take all of them and make some intense edits this week based on your ideas!!

My only concern is the $25 Commercial License. The only reason why this is here on Fiverr is because it’s meant to mimic real life voiceover residuals - when you do a voiceover for copy that is used for a TV show or a commercial, you are sent a cheque every single time your voice airs. So, if your voice is used to sell millions of dollars of Samsung televisions, you get a small cut of that pay. It ensures you continue to profit as long as the company does. In the real world, even if you do a commercial that flops, you make $100 minimum per 20 minutes of studio work; with small residual cheques every month after.

That being said, on Fiverr, I’m lucky if any commercial pays me $10. The Commercial License is sort of the only way I make money; it turns an $8 take into a $28 one. I worry that if I take the base price up, the buyers who wouldn’t need a Commercial License (like a Voicemail or Powerpoint creator) will be deterred by the high price, and conversely, that I’ll lose money on those projects that would normally require a license.

I’ve been wanting to raise my base price for awhile, but I worry.

What do you think?

I am on the high side for everything I offer (except for my course), and Fiverr has richly rewarded me with exceptional placement, and a very good living. (Keep in mind, I always exceed expectations, I bring a lot of buyers in from outside Fiverr, and my offers are highly differentiated.)

You owe it to yourself to spend 2 weeks testing the market at $25 (with inexpensive and few options). Once your revenue-per-order goes us, you end up with a higher search ranking. You can always go back down if I’m wrong.

Best of success to you. 🙂

[hannahhowzdy]

I am on the high side for everything I offer (except for my course), and Fiverr has richly rewarded me with exceptional placement, and a very good living. (Keep in mind, I always exceed expectations, I bring a lot of buyers in from outside Fiverr, and my offers are highly differentiated.)

You owe it to yourself to spend 2 weeks testing the market at $25 (with inexpensive and few options). Once your revenue-per-order goes us, you end up with a higher search ranking. You can always go back down if I’m wrong.

Best of success to you. 🙂

Thanks so much, selfors! You’ve inspired me! I’m going to start tonight by raising my base price to $15, but putting every single extra at $5 apiece. I will get back to you soon with the results. Hopefully positive ones! 😄

[gina_riley2]

I can’t speak for the world, but I’m an impulse buyer. When I see lowered priced extras, I go crazy with the add on’s. My brains reads it as, “Hey, it’s only $5, so why not? Go for it.”

I can buy 8 extras, spend additional $40 and feel good. OTOH, spending $20 on just 1 extra, isn’t as enticing.

I guess it’s the feeling of getting more for my money that sends some sort of euphoria to my brain. It’s like the commercial license, regardless of the reason for sellers charging it, my brain reads it as forced giving - not getting anything in return.

The very few times - like three, I think - I played for CUL, I didn’t leave a tip. I paid extra for something I ended up making $0 in profit so technically, seller got a good tip.

[selfors]

Thanks so much, selfors! You’ve inspired me! I’m going to start tonight by raising my base price to $15, but putting every single extra at $5 apiece. I will get back to you soon with the results. Hopefully positive ones! 😄

[smartselection]

Your gig looks great, your profile shot, everything. It all looks great. Your voice sounds great. Your problem is none of those things.

I have theory, which I espoused a couple of times on here before: As Fiverr approaches its eventual IPO/buyout, revenues are becoming very important. Revenue divided by impressions is the ratio that makes Fiverr favor one gig over another (as logically it should).

Your gig is waaaaay cheap, but your gig options are expensive. This creates adverse selection (upsells are always easier to close if they are small in comparison to the base price), so that your average transaction price is quite low. (I know that I don’t really know this. But I’m guessing your average ticket is significantly lower than mine, and my gigs rank extremely well. And so I sell a lot of stuff.)

If I were you, I would:

Raise your base price to $25, but keep the incremental cost of additional words to $5.

Kill most of your gig extras, like commercial rights. What’s it to you how they use your clip?

Create a new somewhat-unique voiceover gig every week for the next few weeks. They will get rotated into the top of the search for a few days. (Don’t you love how Fiverr does that?)

Re-record your gig video to start it with a USP (“I have been told I have the most beautiful voice on Fiverr”), go to a call-to-action “Order now. I promise you won’t regret it. :)”, and only THEN start your portfolio clips.

I am pretty sure my little plan will work. Best of success to you. 🙂

Thank you very much sir, very useful info, I saw your your critics for many gigs on this forum, I am a new seller. Would you mind checking out my gigs and the profile sir? Kindly, your suggestions are important for me if you have time, I will take it in to consideration, thank you Mr Selfors.

[sp_branding]

I hope it works for you. 🙂

I am sooooo looking forward to the day you would help me criticize my gigs… Your inputs are worth more than diamond!

[smartselection]

I’d love to help.

Your profile picture looks good. Half-way between somber Asian and smiley westerner - a good compromise.

Your bestselling gig has an article-noun mismatch. It should read “I Will Write An Amazing Arabic Article.” Make another gig saying “I Will Write Amazing Arabic Content.” Notice the second title leaves out “an,” and the first, since it has a singular article, cannot be plural. Plus, your gig has you just writing one article.

Even though you are in the writing category, your gig image is what hooks people in. Here is the gold standard:

It belongs to chrisdata. It grabbed my eye in the search, so I had to order her gig to make a gig image for my favorite virtual assistant, kkaur_work:

These tiles make visitor excited to click in.

Long story, short: Sex up your gig images. They’re important no matter what category you’re in.

Last tip, for now: Your profile reads: “Years working with businesses and business owners as an accountant and a project manager to build up expertise in a wide range of industries. Writing, web Searching and Translation are my interests in many and many areas you can imagine, let me share this expertise with you to achieve your satisfaction and goals.”

You are a writer. The market, so far, has decided it. Change your profile to:

"I am an accountant and a project manager, with years of experience in a wide range of industries. My breadth of knowledge let’s me create interesting and original content in as many subject areas you can imagine. My engaging and SEO-optimized writing style will bring visitors to your website or blog, and customers to your business. "

If you will be so kind as to reply once you have adopted some or all of these changes, I will be happy to suggest edits to your gig titles & contents, which also need editing.

Best of success to you. You seem intelligent, and you have the singular great trait of all great individuals: You are willing to ask for help.

🙂

I appreciate your suggestions, really!, I will take all of them in to concideration, Thank you so much MR: SELFORS, I will make these changes immediately, again thank you very much.

[hannahhowzdy]

I can’t speak for the world, but I’m an impulse buyer. When I see lowered priced extras, I go crazy with the add on’s. My brains reads it as, “Hey, it’s only $5, so why not? Go for it.”

I can buy 8 extras, spend additional $40 and feel good. OTOH, spending $20 on just 1 extra, isn’t as enticing.

I guess it’s the feeling of getting more for my money that sends some sort of euphoria to my brain. It’s like the commercial license, regardless of the reason for sellers charging it, my brain reads it as forced giving - not getting anything in return.

The very few times - like three, I think - I played for CUL, I didn’t leave a tip. I paid extra for something I ended up making $0 in profit so technically, seller got a good tip.

This is an excellent, excellent point. Thank you SO much, Gina!

[eranganew]

Your gig looks great, your profile shot, everything. It all looks great. Your voice sounds great. Your problem is none of those things.

I have theory, which I espoused a couple of times on here before: As Fiverr approaches its eventual IPO/buyout, revenues are becoming very important. Revenue divided by impressions is the ratio that makes Fiverr favor one gig over another (as logically it should).

Your gig is waaaaay cheap, but your gig options are expensive. This creates adverse selection (upsells are always easier to close if they are small in comparison to the base price), so that your average transaction price is quite low. (I know that I don’t really know this. But I’m guessing your average ticket is significantly lower than mine, and my gigs rank extremely well. And so I sell a lot of stuff.)

If I were you, I would:

Raise your base price to $25, but keep the incremental cost of additional words to $5.

Kill most of your gig extras, like commercial rights. What’s it to you how they use your clip?

Create a new somewhat-unique voiceover gig every week for the next few weeks. They will get rotated into the top of the search for a few days. (Don’t you love how Fiverr does that?)

Re-record your gig video to start it with a USP (“I have been told I have the most beautiful voice on Fiverr”), go to a call-to-action “Order now. I promise you won’t regret it. :)”, and only THEN start your portfolio clips.

I am pretty sure my little plan will work. Best of success to you. 🙂

Thank you very much selfors. Your suggestions really helpful to me also. I’m a seller since 2013 but suddenly lose my sales. I think it happens when the services over 5$ start to dominate the fiverr. Time to re-think and adapt. 🙂